Comments on: Crikey Counterpoint: two verdicts on The Punch

By: Richard Vowles

Richard Vowles — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:29:17 +0000

Sorry Guy? Who is locking up content?

What exactly do I pay my subscription to Crikey for if it’s not the “locked up content”?

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:43:36 +0000

Mmm, haven’t bothered to look yet, but photographer getting involved in an arrest looks like my hook.

To state the obvious, it’s rivaling Crikey, one assumes, but it’s about 7 years (?) too late as branding and good will have grown out of another News Corp star Stephen Mayne and that’s how history and ownership of space works …… incumbency being 9/10’s of cred.

On the silver lining side TB, not the ruinous illness, but initials of Tim Blair will in due course become even more obsolete in the News Corp stable as ‘the blog you can’t ignore’ or whatever he reckons.

Also one presumes it will leverage the MX Seinfeld style ‘stories about nothing’ political nihilism that is so populor with the consumer zombies out there, err sorry fellow citizens.

By: paddy

paddy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:03:13 +0000

I think Guy’s take on this is closer to the truth than Tim’s.
I got a nasty dose of clinical depression just scrolling down that page.
Murdoch and blogging, seem to go together like water and boarding.

That site is a very public demonstration of cruelty to electrons.
Think I’ll give it a pass thanks.